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A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns. [Obs.]

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]

Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley.

ng house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. Weale. -- Burning mirror, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.

To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. Mrs. Browning.

An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.

Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

s in cadence sweet. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of coarse serge.

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

ap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolsap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head cover…

To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. -- Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. -- Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accus…

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

Penuriousness. [Obs.] By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer.

A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak.